Who earlier imposed aeurocentric Education System on the philippines following the spanish american war. The chairman says barrows writings stated nonwhites were intrinsically illiterate and ignorant. How filipinos are not suited for selfgovernance. Those kinds of things. Reporter the name leconte hall was literally etched in stone until workers covered it today. The Physics Building is named for brothers john and joseph leconte, a pair of confederate scientists who fled the south during the reconstruction. John became ucs first acting president and joseph produced writingings about the inferiorities of the black race. Everything that happened after reconstruction from the backlash. Reporter physic student cecily has studied in the building every day and says she had no idea who it was named for. I wasnt aware of this. And to bring awareness about this and say that thats not okay and that uc berkeley wants to change it, that in itself is a huge step forward. Reporter ironically, the fo
Tonight as crews push to try to control the spread of the glass fire before another red flag warning takes effect. Thanks for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis at this hour the glass fire has burned more than 48,000 acres. It is 2 contained. Parts of napa and sonoma counties remain under Evacuation Orders and more than 68,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. So far the fire has destroyed at least 97 structures and damaged some 17 others right now more than 22,000 other buildings remain threatened cal fires expected to hold a press conference any minute now to bring us the latest when that starts well bring it to you live in the meantime though it has now been almost 48 hours since the entire town of calistoga had to be evacuated while winds were calm today. There is renewed concern about what could happen to that town as the weather gets worse tonight. Fours dan dan live for us in the napa valley with more dan. Were live along one 28 thi
Now forced to relive a painful past and a grim warning of whats ahead. We still have months to go for fire season. Talking about chaotic Evacuations Homes destroyed and fire spreading unchecked but for 10s of thousands of people. Fire fatigue is setting in thank you for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im tahernia and 4 vicki liviakis. Heres where we stand tonight, the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties has charred at least 42,000 acres and remains at 0 containment. Cal fire says 80 homes have been destroyed including 28 in Sonoma County and 52 in napa county more than a 1000 structures remain threatened. And the Sonoma County, the city of santa rosa has also suffered immense fire damage. Many homes have been damaged or completely burned to the ground thats where we find kron fours morning. Kelly tonight what is the situation out there how are things tonight. Well great ill tell you that the weather is definitely improving out here for firefighters in fac
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make
Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shu